Movies like Time After Time 1979

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Time After Time (1979)
 7.1
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Time After Time (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The Wildest Chase Of The Century! London 1893 is home to a killer with a macabre nickname... and also to a visionary genius who would write The Time Machine. But what if H.G. Wells' invention wasn't fiction? And what if Jack the Ripper escaped capture fleeing his own time to take refuge in ours - with Wells himself in pursuit?
Style: suspenseful, clever, psychotronic, psychological, retro, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, mysterious, surreal ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, serial killer, jack the ripper, culture clash, murder, bank, altering history, writers, alternate history, fall in love, time, violence, hotel, time traveler, chase, new year, whodunit, winter, victorian england, butterfly effect, parallel universe, elevator, time jump ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 70s, year 1979, 20th century, future, 1890s ...
Place: san francisco, london, california, usa, europe
Keyword: french fries, doctors

Most similar movies to Time After Time

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and suspense films with plots about time travel, time machine, imaginary, time loop, time jump, time and changing the past or future mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Time After Time: Back to the Future (1985), Project Almanac (2015), 12 Monkeys (2015), 11.22.63 (2016), Primer (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Back to the Future (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time loop, teenager, destiny, inventor, scientist, changing the past or future, time, fish out of water, high school ...
Time: future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, year 1955 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Project Almanac (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time loop, teenager, time, time machine, alternate timeline, time paradox, butterfly effect, changing the past or future, time traveler, teenage life, teleportation ...
Time: future, year 2015, year 2014, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: usa, woodstock, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 48K
12 Monkeys (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time travel, epidemic, survival, changing the past or future, time machine, existence paradox, post apocalypse, sent to the past, plague, virus, save the world, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 98K
11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, exciting, period piece, tense, light ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, time traveler, changing the past or future, altering history, kennedy assassination, murder, love, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
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Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 115K
Frequency (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time: future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 2K
Timestalkers (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Scott, a history professor, becomes involved with two time travelers from the year 2586 after making a discovery in an old photograph. One of the time travelers is determined to change the course of history, the other to stop him. Scott's ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious
Plot: time travel, time loop, new world, mad scientist, old west, time machine, terminator, disorder, danger, changing the past or future, chases and races, imaginary ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
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Looker (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, futuristic, psychological ...
Plot: murder, model, plastic surgeon, serial killer, murder mystery, obsession, greed, doctor, technology gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 68K
Timecrimes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, twists and turns, plot twist, problem solving, mysterious character, surrealism, distopia, memory, insanity, puzzle ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, chase, world war two, conspiracy, experiment, experiment gone awry, justice, laboratory, danger, chases and races, heroic mission, heroes ...
Time: future, 20th century, 1940s, 80s, year 1943 ...
Place: california, philadelphia, nevada, usa, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min.
Story: STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, atmospheric
Plot: archaeologist, time travel, tomb, chase, supernatural, skeleton, excavation, danger, nobody believes, investigation, pursuit, on the run ...
Place: israel, middle east, holy land
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 7K
Retroactive (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Style: suspense, tense, road movie, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, changing the past or future, serial killer, time, alternate reality, alternate timeline, witnessing a crime, destiny, twists and turns, changing the future ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: texas, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, destiny, changing the past or future, sent to the past, supernatural ability, time loop, childhood, suicide, supernatural, haunted by the past, hopes, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.4
 600K
Looper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style: futuristic, clever, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, hitman, distopia, organized crime, cyberpunk, time paradox, assassin, shooting, self sacrifice, changing the past or future, parallel universe ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 2040s, near future ...
Place: seattle, kansas, shanghai, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Time Machine (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time traveler, salem witch trial, cave, social commentary, aftermath, time travel, cannibal, dystopian future, mutant, disorder, chaos ...
Time: future, 20th century, distant future
Place: salem massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.1
 119K
The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, time loop, mental institution, supernatural, murder, hallucination, mental illness, memory loss, butterfly effect, supernatural ability, parallel universe ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: iraq, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, clever, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, alternate reality, inventor, changing the past or future, time loop, sent to the past, teenager, travel, alternate timeline, time, mad scientist ...
Time: future, year 2015, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 10K
Doctor Who (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Style: suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, doctor who, changing the past or future, good versus evil, heroic mission, rescue, danger, save the world, obsessive quest, alien encounter, androids and robots, space ...
Time: 90s, future, year 2000, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, california, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 5K
12:01 (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the ...
Style: entertaining, retro, action thriller, mind bending, action adventure ...
Plot: time loop, time travel, groundhog day, time, back in time, travel, memory, prank, murder, experiment gone awry, heroes, race against time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, heroes, martial arts, chase, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, danger, alternate timeline, psychopath, kickboxing ...
Time: 19th century, year 1929, 1920s, year 1988, year 2002 ...
Place: germany, europe, los angeles, texas, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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See You Yesterday (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two teenagers build time machines to save one's brother from being killed by the police.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, touching, tense, humorous ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, youth, dishonesty, time, time machine, escapades, saving a life, death, society, family relations, hopes ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 66K
Timeline (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, sincere, suspense ...
Plot: time travel, knight, archaeology, time machine, medieval, changing the past or future, danger, twists and turns, time loop, sorcery, parallel universe, time ...
Time: future, medieval times, year 2003, middle ages, 14th century ...
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
 64K
Timecop (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, martial arts, time machine, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, danger, violence, murder, superhero, cyberpunk, dystopic future ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1994 ...
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 3K
Time Changer (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming ...
Style: christian film, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, christian, christianity, ethics, bible, faith, dystopian future, preaching ...
Time: 1890s, future, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Forgotten Experiment (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of heroes assembled by the eccentric billionaire goes into closed Perimeter full of abnormal activity which is inexplicable in terms of science. This journey will change all members of the group and reverse their notion of reality.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, entertaining, serious, exciting
Plot: riddles and clues, time travel, time traveler, brother, time, brothers, two brothers, puzzle, brother brother relationship, time warp, time loop, time jump ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
 7K
Millennium (1989)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, disaster, airplane crash, time warp, airplane, female warrior, robot, distopia, aviation, scientist, airport, paradox ...
Time: future, year 1989, year 1963, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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